Politics 2.0

There has been a lot written (here and elsewhere) on Barack Obama's grassroots political campaign, and how it demonstrates the strength of networked communities to shake the foundations of institutions. The power of bottom up, versus top down (Hillary).

Here's a short video clilp of Barack talking about the power of social media. As Clay Shirky argues, collective organization and action has just become a whole lot easier because of simple tools available to everyone, and the Obama campaign has been one of the most vivid and profound examples of what this could mean for all of us.

We're talking about the man who might be the next president of the United States here! Do you think that the cavemen running global media companies can start to maybe pay a bit of attention to what is going on?!

via Daria